“I actually taught perceptual psychology at N.Y.U. when I was younger. I was interested in the aesthetic impulse in lower primates. But what really interested me in Dian Fossey was that she made a difference - she saved the gorillas.” MadeDifferencesPsychologyTaughtSavedImpulseAestheticPrimatesGorillas Author:Arne Glimcher
“My interest in the psychological roots of psychosis has both personal (my brother Andrew committed suicide) and professional origins (I was trained in a behaviorist approach to psychology which - whatever its limitations - at least taught me to see human behavior in its social context).” HumansSocialInterestPsychologyTaughtBrotherBehaviorApproachRootsSuicideCommittedPsychologicalLimitationMy BrotherHuman BehaviorAndrewPsychosis Author:Richard Bentall
“I have to put my father over because he really taught me a lot, especially when it comes to out-of-the-ring psychology and how to react when you're approached by fans after a show or in the airport. It might sound silly, but a lot of those things come into play when you're playing a character.” PlayCharacterShowsMightFatherSoundPsychologyFansTaughtRingsSillyAirports Author:Randy Orton
“Some of my Arcanum bunkmates taught me a card game called dogs-breath. I returned the favor by giving an impromptu lesson in psychology, probability, and manual dexterity. I won almost two whole talents before they stopped inviting me back to their games.” GivingTwoWholeGamesPsychologyTalentDogTaughtLessonsBreathsFavorsCardsProbabilityManualsInvitingDexterity Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else will love you.”…The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation” PeopleLoveYearsHas BeensTruthSocialSupportPsychologyLove YouTaughtHealthHealthyTruth IsBuiltCapacityMental HealthIsolationLove YourselfProfessionalismCapacity To LoveHealth Professionals Author:Bruce D. Perry
“Not one idiot in a thousand has been entirely refractory to treatment, not one in a hundred has not been made more happy and healthy; more than thirty per cent have been taught to conform to social and moral law, and rendered capable of order, of good feeling, and of working like the third of a man; more than forty per cent have become capable of the ordinary transactions of life under friendly control, of understanding moral and social abstractions, of working like two-thirds of a man.” MenHas BeensMadeTwoFeelingsLawOrderSocialUnderstandingMoralPsychologyTaughtHealthyThousandCapableOrdinaryHundredThirdsIdiotThirtyTreatmentFortyFriendlyCentsConformAbstractionTransactionsGood FeelingMoral Law Author:Edouard Seguin
“All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are all stabs at something that can't be taught. All the great actors can't talk about what they do, and they don't want to begin to talk about it. They just do it.” WantRealActorsActingPsychologyTaughtTheoryCircumstancesBehaviorTheatreImaginaryJust Do ItReactingGreat Actors Author:Mike Nichols
“All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives.” PeopleYearsLastsCultureSocialDifferencesPsychologyAcceptanceTaughtLessonsHundredRelateSocial WorkFamily LifePsychiatrySimilarityTaught Us Book:Reflections of a Siamese twin: Canada at the end of the twentieth century Source: Reflections of a Siamese twin: Canada at the end of the twentieth century
“It saddens me that in many churches today, you hardly hear the name of Jesus being mentioned. Instead, you hear psychology being taught. You hear motivational teachings. You hear 'doing, doing, doing', 'vision, vision, vision' or 'calling, calling, calling'. You hear very little of Jesus Christ and His finished work being taught. Is this what Christianity is about? Your doing, your calling and your vision?” LittlesTodayJesusNamesChristChurchChristianityVisionPsychologyTeachingTaughtCallingJesus ChristFinishedBeing MeChurch TodayFinished Work Author:Joseph Prince
“Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.” PeopleNeedsMindUsePsychologyMeditationModernTaughtPortionsTranscendentalTranscendental MeditationModern Psychology Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi